How It Works

extratime.gg is built around one idea: your Discord server is the hub. The web dashboard is for setup and stats — the action happens in Discord.

The flow

The extratime bot handles:

Match notifications — posts results, upcoming matches, and bracket updates to your chosen channel
Match channels — auto-creates and archives text channels for each match so teams can coordinate
Role sync — assigns Discord roles based on team membership, rank, or tournament placement

The bot syncs its state with the web dashboard in real time. Admin actions on the dashboard are reflected in Discord immediately, and vice versa.

extratime uses a modified ELO rating system:

Every team starts at 1000 ELO
Points gained or lost depend on the relative rating of both teams
Beating a higher-rated team gives more points; losing to a lower-rated team costs more
ELO is tracked per-server — a team’s rating in one community is independent of another

Entity	Description
Server (Guild)	A Discord server connected to extratime. All data is scoped to a server.
Team	A group of players with a captain, roster, and ELO rating.
Player	A Discord user with a profile, rank, and match history.
Match	A recorded game between two teams with a result and ELO change.
Tournament	A bracket competition with registrations, seeding, and rounds.
Scrim	A one-off match request that gets paired through the scrim queue.